On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com> wrote:
It's hard to see a revolution when you're in the middle of it. [...], the Internet will shift from a tool for reading web sites and watching occasional cat videos to a system whose main job (from the perspective of traffic) is video streaming. The magnitude of the change will necessarily cause a re-evaluation of the norms for interconnection, aggregation, content placement, and protocol design.
Richard, Before Netflix it was Bittorrent. Before Bittorrent it was Usenet. Before the Internet, history records no shortage of companies willing to falsely advertise a product that did less than was claimed. Nor is fraudulent double-billing a recent invention. There is nothing new under the sun, no matter how much you may protest otherwise, and every one of these eyeball networks sold products which, on paper, were consistent with the use of Netflix. Without requiring additional payment beyond the customers' subscriber fee. And continued selling the product as described, long beyond any reasonable doubt their customers expected it to work with Netflix. Right through this very minute and beyond. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/> Can I solve your unusual networking challenges?